[Editor's Note: All photos by View Staff]
2017 Category: Fearsome Enemies
Team Iste
- Joey Chipman (Ruthade)
Colored pencil and ink
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| Overview |
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| Wasp close-up |
Team Saegan
- Keith Cronyn (Saegan)
Fearsome enemies: classic dragon, chartreuse, and cancer (denoted by the crab). Done on leather with pastels, acrylic paint, and India Ink. Fun fact: a raisin was used as a paintbrush.
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| Overview of piece |
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| Dragon and the crab; paint detail close-up |
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| More detail close-up |
Team Jack -- WINNER
- Kite
This entry for the QOH artist tourney was painted digitally using a Wacom Bamboo tablet, in a freeware raster drawing program called FireAlpaca. Conception of the design was done using thumbnails, voted upon by the team, and finalized appropriately. The physical print is 18x22”, and was done professionally on semi-gloss paper. In approaching the prompt of “Fearsome Enemy”, I wanted to create a strong design that could tell a visual story. I decided upon a giant-like enemy with an enormous sword bisecting its chest and shoulders, indicating that it had taken massive damage from a formidable foe, but had survived and continued to fight. The red sky and enormity of the sword, which seems un-wieldable by any normal being, lends a sense of hopelessness to the tiny knight that is now facing the creature down. - Kite
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| Overview |
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| The creature bisected by the massive sword |
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| Knight detail |